Experience
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- MKP Capital Management
Expertise
- Macroeconomic policy
- Labor and workforce dynamics
- Inflation and the Federal Reserve
Education
- Columbia University, J.D., B.S., B.A.
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About Skanda
Skanda Amarnath is the Executive Director of Employ America, a policy research organization focused on monetary, fiscal, and industrial-level policies for advancing full employment outcomes and addressing business cycle risks. He leads the organization’s work to design new industrial policy tools to fight inflation, including the successful revision of federal regulation to use existing statutory authorities for stockpile acquisition to flexibly support supply-side responses. Before leading the organization, Amarnath served as Employ America’s Director of Research & Analysis, where he focused primarily on Federal Reserve policy.
Before joining Employ America, Amarnath was Vice President at MKP Capital Management, a multi-billion, global macro hedge fund, where he served as an interest rate strategist and chief economist responsible for covering North American markets and economies. At MKP, he developed trading models and views based on macroeconomic data, risk assessments, and central bank analysis. Previously, Amarnath worked as an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, with a focus on macroeconomic and asset pricing research.
Amarnath’s work and perspectives on the economy have been featured by Bloomberg TV, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, Politico, Associated Press, and Vox.
Amarnath earned undergraduate degrees in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Columbia University and a JD from Columbia Law School.
